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Postby AUbicycles » Sun Apr 07, 2013 8:06 pm
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Re: Vintage and Retro Malvern Star
Postby Novice9 » Thu Oct 23, 2014 7:03 pm
6mt 655
Looks like a penny farthing for kids
Any body know an age bye the serial number
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Re: Vintage and Retro Malvern Star
Postby Paul G. » Sat Nov 08, 2014 12:37 am
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Old Malvern Star Kids bike
Postby wrd7105 » Sat Jul 11, 2015 6:01 pm
I am restoring an old Malvern Star 2 Star kids 20" step through bike that I have come across.
Serial number on the seat post clamp is 8M 18646
I have had a lot of trouble trying to determine the age of this bike.
I cannot even find a picture on the net of this bike.
Could someone please help.
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Re: Vintage and Retro Malvern Star
Postby bikeboy3 » Thu Aug 20, 2015 2:49 am
Im new and just trying to get some info on an old Malvern Star i have. Can anyone tell me roughly the age
they think this SL 500 Side mount model is. Its in really good condition and still has original white walls on it, cant read
the name properly on the rubber but its something or other rubber co. Any help to work out the bikes age would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.


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Re: Vintage and Retro Malvern Star
Postby SimoneF » Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:33 am
Decals say Malvern Star and the top tube says Evolution, my question is, is this a legitimate Malvern Star model? As I cannot find any reference or picture of it on the internet!? Could it be a fake or maybe no t many photos were taken of it a the time?
It has a flat handle bar, SIS gearing, the steel tube paint work is grey with squiggly lines, kick stand and had a wide style back pannier.
Was in really good condition (kept indoors) and so I took it into a neighbourhood bike store that said they could 'refurbish bikes', I will not name them, and all they simply did was paint the handle bar/stem/fork in black and replace the chain, seat and brakes with generic 'Giant' branded products, suffice to say I was extremely disappointed, as maybe I hadn't explained myself properly that I really wanted it converted to a nice looking road bike. So I paid my $400 and half way home the pedal fell out.
Turns out my dad said 'oh yeah by the way the pedal had rounded of at the joint and it falls out a few minutes after tightening", so that leads me to believe the bike store did not do a full restore as they would have noticed that problem!
So off to a different bike store who fixed this problem immediately with an entirely new crankset and chain ring. The guy remarked that it looked like I had spent way to much money (aka ripped off) on the new bits, but having been burnt by the initial 'rebuild' was reluctant to let them have a go at making it more cool.
Should I strip it to the frame, rebuild it from there and turn it into a nice road bike with chrome Quill, drop bar and more gears? I ask this because I think it might be a hybrid bike but would it still work? Been watching few YouTube videos, so I could give it a go, or should I try a third time to give it to a professional bike restorer?
Maybe I was misunderstood being a gal, but I really want to upgrade it as I don't have a car and I only ride bikes, my current Scott Foil 20 is fast but not handy and I need to get this steel bike going to cart things around (it has eyelets

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Re: Vintage and Retro Malvern Star
Postby Fly63 » Sat Nov 26, 2016 8:04 pm
Cheers Fly
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Re: Vintage and Retro Malvern Star
Postby Chris Walters » Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:55 am
I have a vintage Malvern Star serial number 40555, can you tell me what year it is?
Thanks
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